@@ -27,9 +27,14 @@ static int utimes_common(const struct path *path, struct timespec64 *times)
if (error)
goto out;
- if (times && times[0].tv_nsec == UTIME_NOW &&
- times[1].tv_nsec == UTIME_NOW)
- times = NULL;
+ if (times) {
+ if (!nsec_valid(times[0].tv_nsec) ||
+ !nsec_valid(times[1].tv_nsec))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ if (times[0].tv_nsec == UTIME_NOW &&
+ times[1].tv_nsec == UTIME_NOW)
+ times = NULL;
+ }
newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_CTIME | ATTR_MTIME | ATTR_ATIME;
if (times) {
@@ -76,9 +81,6 @@ static int do_utimes_path(int dfd, const char __user *filename,
struct path path;
int lookup_flags = 0, error;
- if (times &&
- (!nsec_valid(times[0].tv_nsec) || !nsec_valid(times[1].tv_nsec)))
- return -EINVAL;
if (flags & ~(AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW | AT_EMPTY_PATH))
return -EINVAL;
@@ -107,9 +109,6 @@ static int do_utimes_fd(int fd, struct timespec64 *times, int flags)
struct fd f;
int error;
- if (times &&
- (!nsec_valid(times[0].tv_nsec) || !nsec_valid(times[1].tv_nsec)))
- return -EINVAL;
if (flags)
return -EINVAL;
Consolidate the validation of the timespec from the two callers into utimes_common. That means it is done a little later (e.g. after the path lookup), but I can't find anything that requires a specific order of processing the errors. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> --- fs/utimes.c | 17 ++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)